# Lo spacciatore (1992)

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**Original title**: *Light Sleeper*
**Runtime**: 103 min
**Genres**: Drama, Crime
**Directed by**: Paul Schrader
**Written by**: Paul Schrader
**Starring**: Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany, David Clennon, Mary Beth Hurt, Victor Garber

> *He was a good man in a deadly business. She was his only way out.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You deal to a high-end New York clientele but struggle with insomnia and a desire to exit the business, and then a past flame reappears. The film is set against a backdrop of a city plagued by a string of murders.

**Mood tags**: dread, neon-soaked, outsider, paranoid, slow-burn

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